1. Ecole Classique
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (504) 887-3507
Address: 5236 Glendale St.
Description: Founded in 1956, Ecole Classique is a private, coeducational elementary and secondary school with the purpose of preparing students to enter college. In kindergarten through third grade, students are in self-contained programs with a single educator. Grades four through six are completely departmentalized (students change classes) and staffed by degreed and certified teachers. Seventh through 12th grades are also departmentalized, with courses offered on three levels: honors, middle, and academic. Students are required to take both the SAT and ACT prior to graduation.
2. Metairie Park Country Day School
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (504) 837-5204
Address: 300 Park Rd.
Description: Everyone knows that the most successful schools are generally the ones with the most parent involvement. At Country Day, folks took it a step further. This kindergarten-through-12th grade school, situated on 14 acres in a quiet, residential neighborhood of the Metairie suburb, was founded by a group of parents in 1929. Country Day is a nonsectarian, college prep day school with an enrollment of approximately 700 boys and girls. One hundred percent of Country Day graduates pursue a college degree and are accepted by some of the nation’s best colleges each year. The average class size at Country Day is 12 to 15 students. Honors and advanced placement classes are offered in all disciplines. An emphasis is placed on fine arts at every grade level.
3. New Orleans Citybusiness
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (504) 834-9292
Address: 111 Veterans Blvd.
Description: Since 1980 this award-winning weekly business publication has covered the bottom line on everything from minority-owned start-up companies and emerging women entrepreneurs to the region’s huge oil and gas and tourism industries and the movers and shakers who make it all happen. This tabloid is available through newsstands and vending machines throughout the Central Business District, Uptown, and Metairie.
4. New Orleans Magazine
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (504) 832-3555
Address: 111 Veterans Blvd.
Description: Slick city magazines come and go, but this one has been a local staple for more than four decades, thanks in part to its entertaining and informative coverage of local culture, politics, lifestyle, history, and consumer-related issues by a masthead of award-winning local writers such as Errol Laborde.
5. American Back Institute Of Greater New Orleans
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (504) 833-2225
Address: 671 Rosa Ave.
Description: This institute specializes in treatment of the spine using state-of-the-art technology including the VAX–D, which has been demonstrated to be effective in 71 to 74 percent of 778 patients who participated in a recent study. Other disciplines include prolotherapy and chiropractic. The clinic also offers a large and varied referral base including conventional and alternative medicine specialists.
6. Metairie Pain And Acupuncture Clinic
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (504) 888-5449
Address: 3216 North Turnbull Dr.
Description: For nearly a quarter century, this clinic has been providing patients with nonsurgical alternatives to pain management, specializing in nerve blocks and acupuncture. Dr. Jerry S. Y. Yong is one of only a few acupuncturists licensed in Louisiana to practice the ancient Chinese healing art.
7. Achievement Therapeutic Services
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (504) 366-7246
Address: 3320 Hessmer Ave.
Description: Dr. Kenneth S. Pace, DC, treats a wide variety of patients with joint pain, whiplash, sports injuries, and neck pain using the most modern techniques available to chiropractic medicine. Pace combines his extensive knowledge of biomechanics and state-of-the-art equipment and diagnostic techniques.
8. Chiropractic Health Center
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (504) 454-2000
Address: 101 Clearview Parkway
Description: Since 1986 this clinic has been treating patients requiring short- or long-term corrective chiropractic treatment. From junior high school students with sports-related injuries to oil rig workers with back and neck pain, the Chiropractic Health Center team provides state-of-the-art treatment. Other ailments treated include headache and shoulder pain, pinched nerves, and sciatica.
9. East Jefferson General Hospital
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (504) 454-4000
Address: 4200 Houma St.
Description: Since 1971 this nonprofit, 450-bed community hospital has provided tertiary care to residents of the East Bank of Jefferson Parish and surrounding communities. More than 700 primary care and specialist physicians spearhead the broad-based medical staff at this facility, which was awarded accreditation with commendation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations, the body’s highest recognition. The facility also receives vital support from more than 1,000 volunteers, some of whom have been with the hospital since its inception. Centers of excellence include Cardiovascular Services, Diabetes Management Center, The Wound Center, Regional Cancer Center, Rehabilitative Services, and Woman & Child Services.A modern outpatient facility, the 228,000-square-foot Joseph C. Domino Health Care Pavilion opened in 1997 to accommodate the large number of patients needing same-day surgeries and laboratory procedures such as gastrointestinal endoscopy. Departments occupying the pavilion’s four floors include laboratory and diagnostic radiology, same-day surgery, gastrointestinal endoscopy. Other hospital services offered include an emergency department, ambulance transportation, and intensive care unit. A 38,000-square-foot wellness center for older adults offers a variety of fitness and health education programs such as cardiovascular exercises and aquatic therapy. Mature adults will find innovative programs tailored to meet their special wellness and health education needs at the hospital’s Elder Advantage program.The Yenni Pavilion houses radiation therapy, outpatient chemotherapy, and MRI.During the past three decades, the hospital has devoted millions of dollars in community benefits such as indigent care and support for the prison medical units. The hospital also provides the Jefferson Parish Public School System with registered nurses and substance abuse and intervention facilitators, and helped fund the Jefferson Community School’s science lab. The hospital’s participation in the evolving Integrated Physician Network of primary care doctors and specialty physicians, as well as partial ownership of the Southeast Medical Alliance and its insurance products, puts the facility in a good position to seek managed care contracts. This publicly owned service district hospital is governed by a 10-member volunteer board of directors appointed by the Jefferson Parish Council and Parish President. More important, with more than three decades of service and the steadfast loyalty of the community, East Jefferson General has earned a reputation as a health care “jewel” of the East Bank.
10. Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Relocation
Telephone: (504) 780-8282
Address: 4700 I–10 Service Rd.
Description: In 2005, Tulane Medical Center merged with Lakeside Hospital to become a leading teaching facility in the community. Today this 119-bed specialty center and state-of-the-art health care provider, located in Metairie on the East Bank of Jefferson Parish, has more than 250 full-time employees and 650 staff physicians. The Tulane Center for Women’s Health, a comprehensive care system, offers a centralized system for coordinating patient education, screening, diagnosis, and treatment services related to women’s health needs. Lakeside was the first hospital in the area with the new Advanced Breast Biopsy Instrumentation and is a regional ABBI training site. The hospital was also the first in the market to have fully digitized radiography and fluoroscopy capabilities. Pioneering procedures have included the transvaginal sling procedure used to treat incontinence as well as the direct-oocyte sperm transfer for the treatment of infertility. The hospital has ICU and telemetry units, and a state-of-the-art urgent care center.
11. Martin Wine Cellar
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (504) 896-7300
Address: 714 Elmeer St.
Description: If your favorite martini leaves you shaken and stirred, you must have discovered the jalapeño-stuffed jumbo Spanish olives and Creole marinated onions sold at this popular store. Join the crowd. There is always a buzz inside this Uptown shop on Saturday afternoon, when loyal locals browse aisles full of domestic and international wines and liquors, gourmet food items and hot sauces, Jamaican jerk seasoning, Brazilian mustard glazes, Creole coffees, and local seasonings and dressings (try the mango or passion fruit vinaigrettes by Consorzio).Weekend cooking demonstrations, informal wine tastings, and microbrewed beer samplings create an upscale atmosphere accented by a pleasant selection of cheeses ranging from double-cream havarti to crumbly Spanish cabrales. Gourmet cookies, biscotti, and shortbreads target the sweet tooth, while a crowded deli section offers to-go or dine-in specialty pastas, salads, and sandwiches. The Nova Delight—Norwegian smoked salmon and cream cheese with onion and capers on pumpernickel or a bagel—is particularly good.
12. New Orleans Zephyrs
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (504) 734-5155
Address: 6000 Airline Dr.
Description: The New Orleans Zephyrs baseball team played its inaugural season at Zephyr Field in 1997, which then-team president Rob Couhig called “the crown jewel of minor league baseball.”Fans of this Florida Marlins AAA affiliate watch minor league ball in style Apr through September. The $20 million, 10,000-seat (with chairbacks) ballpark features the largest scoreboard in all of minor league baseball, 16 VIP suites, a covered party area adjacent to seating, and a fan swimming pool with two hot tubs.Spectators are also treated to a variety of theme nights that include fireworks shows, dollar beer, and hat and T-shirt giveaways. And whether or not the team’s a contender, the entertainment value of the games has attracted more than half a million fans during a regular season. This breaks the city’s last baseball attendance record, set in 1947 when the now-defunct New Orleans Pelicans (named after the state bird) drew 400,036 fans at Pelican Stadium. Gates open 90 minutes before game time. All Zephyrs games are broadcast on WIST AM 690. Tickets range from $6 to $10. Call Mon through Fri 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on any game day or visit the box office at the ballpark.To get to Zephyr Field from New Orleans: Take I–10 west toward Baton Rouge. Exit at Clearview Parkway and head south. Turn right on Airline Drive and after two stoplights you will see the stadium’s two big signs on the left. Turn at the first one.
13. Fishunter Guide Service Inc.
City: Metairie, LA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (504) 837-0703, (800) 887-1385
Address: 1905 Edenborn Ave.
Description: The father-son team of Capt. Nash Roberts III and Capt. Nash Roberts IV, both biologists, take anglers year-round for light-tackle fishing in the shallow (1 to 1.5 feet depth) interior marshes and bays that border New Orleans. The 21-foot Neumann Custom Marsh Max boat departs at safe light from Port Sulphur (on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish), returning at 2:30 p.m. Two three-bedroom/two-bath fishing camps, with complete kitchens and outside decks overlooking the marsh are available for overnight accommodations.